{"id":700596,"date":"2026-04-06T01:41:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/700596\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T01:41:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:41:45","slug":"arturas-karnisovas-facing-pressure-as-bulls-to-make-major-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/700596\/","title":{"rendered":"Arturas Karnisovas facing &#8216;pressure&#8217; as Bulls to make major decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile, Chicago is still looking to retain Billy Donovan as their head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Arturas Karnisovas is now on the hot seat in the wake of yet another brutal losing season for the Chicago Bulls, according to seasoned league insider <a href=\"https:\/\/marcstein.substack.com\/p\/sunday-best-the-nbas-latest-around\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Stein.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The franchise is said to conduct important meetings soon to discuss its direction, and Karnisovas&#8217; future will certainly be discussed.<\/p>\n<p>This 2025-26 season serves as the sixth year of Karnisovas being the team&#8217;s top executive. As such, the team has only appeared in just one postseason since he took over as the Bulls&#8217; Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls are now out of postseason contention. They are in the 12th spot of the Eastern Conference with a 29-49 record.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, amid Karnisovas&#8217; blurry long-term picture in Chicago, the Bulls are still looking to retain the service of Billy Donovan.<\/p>\n<p>Donovan has emerged as a top collegiate candidate, primarily in North Carolina. The Hall of Famer led notably led Florida to back-to-back NCAA men&#8217;s basketball titles in 2006 and 2007.<\/p>\n<p>                                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/plus?utm_source=basketnews_com&amp;utm_medium=bn_plus&amp;utm_id=UA-259273-31&amp;utm_campaign=banners_free_content_for_not_members_bottom_1\" class=\"banners_paid_content_info_block_white banners-paid-content-info-block-white\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bn-plus-img img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bn-plus.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                            Thank you for being with us! Subscribe to BN+ and browse ad-free.<\/p>\n<p>                                                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                If you like our content, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=basketnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> and add us as your preferred source. It helps us a lot, and we are committed to delivering you the very latest basketball news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, Chicago is still looking to retain Billy Donovan as their head coach. Arturas Karnisovas is now on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3771],"tags":[7,920,919,329,3824,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-700596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bulls","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bulls","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-bulls","12":"tag-chicagobulls","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116355226576576924","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}